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president obama does okay on that score. he's 48% of the country say he's trying to bring the country together. 43% say he's taking a partisan approach. but republicans get hammered by the public. only 22% credit republicans with trying to bring the country together. three times that many just about, 64%, say they're driving the country apart -- in a partisan way. and when you look at the issues at stake, each side has some advantages. but -- from the democratic point of view, looking out for the middle class, 22% advantage for the democrats. on the issue of taxes which is traditionally a republican strength, democrats have a small advantage plus 3%. republicans on the flip side, who would do better at protecting a strong defense? 26% advantage for republicans. who'd do better at reducing the deficit? 6% advantage for republicans. so each side brings strengths to this issue. but president obama clearly has the high ground in terms of the bully pulpit and trying to put pressure on republicans. he hasn't been able to put enoug
president obama does okay on that score. he's 48% of the country say he's trying to bring the country together. 43% say he's taking a partisan approach. but republicans get hammered by the public. only 22% credit republicans with trying to bring the country together. three times that many just about, 64%, say they're driving the country apart -- in a partisan way. and when you look at the issues at stake, each side has some advantages. but -- from the democratic point of view, looking out for...
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>> you know, i was an obama guy. i really believed that -- >> see, was is the operative word. >> joe, you said you wanted to haircut somebody out. >> i said a flowbee. >> here's mary. >> take 0.3 of an inch. >> 0.03 of an inch. >> he's willing to take 3% off. >> why don't we just give it to you and you take it over there and cut it and then bring it back here. >> randomly, mary. that's the idea. it's a random 3% cut that he's willing to do. >> it's across the board. 3%. >> it's not considered, right? >> it's just -- >> you are like the pope giving sex advice. you have no idea about what people do with hair. listen to me. do you know what a flowbee is? >> i don't. >> a flowbee is that vacuum cleaner -- >> where's barry? >> come on in there. >> where you put it on and it pulls your hair up and cuts an exact amount everywhere. >> i don't have any knowledge of that. >> i know you don't. >> -- for 1950s -- >> they talk about baldness like it's a sickness, like you've got a cure. >> that was how i showed -- because you hav
>> you know, i was an obama guy. i really believed that -- >> see, was is the operative word. >> joe, you said you wanted to haircut somebody out. >> i said a flowbee. >> here's mary. >> take 0.3 of an inch. >> 0.03 of an inch. >> he's willing to take 3% off. >> why don't we just give it to you and you take it over there and cut it and then bring it back here. >> randomly, mary. that's the idea. it's a random 3% cut that he's willing...
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president obama has signed a debt ceiling suspension into law. the measure allows the government to keep borrowing to pay its bills. it puts off the next congressional battle over the debt ceiling until may. boeing is asking the faa for permission to resume test flights of its grounded 787 jet. it wants to test the batteries and other components in flight since certain conditions can't be simulated on the ground. the faa is evaluating boeing's request. >>> in wall street 2013 rally interrupted with a major averages suffering their worst one-day loss in a year on monday's trading. the last hour we spoke to goldman's jim o'neil about the prospects of making money in this market. >> i think to sell if you're a medium term player is probably not a smart move. but if you've made all the gains, to take some off the table isn't a crazy idea either. >> joining us now is nouriel roubini, chairman and co-founder of roubini global economics. you're not like a market master, maybe like a market jedi. plus andrew still here from fortune magazine. the one and
president obama has signed a debt ceiling suspension into law. the measure allows the government to keep borrowing to pay its bills. it puts off the next congressional battle over the debt ceiling until may. boeing is asking the faa for permission to resume test flights of its grounded 787 jet. it wants to test the batteries and other components in flight since certain conditions can't be simulated on the ground. the faa is evaluating boeing's request. >>> in wall street 2013 rally...
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. >> rick, 11,629 people go on food stamps each day. 31 million when obama came in. 47 million now. that's more than the population of spain, 47 million. we all want to help people that are needy. but it's probably not a good idea to create and add to the people that are needy and then feel virtuous about helping them. if policies were able to take -- the 16 million back off food stamps that are on now by giving them jobs, by instituting policies that give them jobs to where they're -- i mean it's so good to feel good on the front end about being virtuous about helping people that are needy but what if you're adding to all the people that are actually in need, steve? >> one statistic that summarizes it, sequester. everybody's talking about the sequester. if "the wall street journal" pointed out, the amount of money we're talking about for one year on the sequester's cuts is one-third of one percent of the 3.6 trillion that we would have if we had a budget. but that's the number. we can't -- one-third of one percent of our budget? oh, my god! if anybody thinks we're going to give tho
. >> rick, 11,629 people go on food stamps each day. 31 million when obama came in. 47 million now. that's more than the population of spain, 47 million. we all want to help people that are needy. but it's probably not a good idea to create and add to the people that are needy and then feel virtuous about helping them. if policies were able to take -- the 16 million back off food stamps that are on now by giving them jobs, by instituting policies that give them jobs to where they're -- i...
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and we got obama care. and obama care, when you look at the complexities in that plan, health care costs are going to go up, they're not going to go down. and you've got temporary workers to deal with. retail has got a hell of a problem. going from 35 hours a week to 30 hours a week for a temporary employee. if you've got 50 employees. you want 49. there's so many complexities in these two things. so my concern about acceleration, is regulatory. warren may have a different view of that. >> interesting thing is i agree with everything jack has said, but it's -- it's i don't come away as pessimistic as he does. but he's absolutely right about, you know, about what's happening with health care, and everything. i don't disagree with a word that he said. that he said. >> and i'm not pessimistic, warren. i'm not pessimistic. i just think we -- we're at a position where we could really take off if we had the right policies. >> yeah. well i -- i -- the interesting thing kind of is that america really is doing bette
and we got obama care. and obama care, when you look at the complexities in that plan, health care costs are going to go up, they're not going to go down. and you've got temporary workers to deal with. retail has got a hell of a problem. going from 35 hours a week to 30 hours a week for a temporary employee. if you've got 50 employees. you want 49. there's so many complexities in these two things. so my concern about acceleration, is regulatory. warren may have a different view of that....
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we're going to try to hold an obama nominee to a standard that president obama set. you laid it out correctly, that president obama, in the campaign, made a very very big deal out of the unethical immoral business of investing in the cayman islands. so you would expect -- you wouldn't expect him then to appoint somebody that did exactly the same thing that ends up making the president look hypocritical by nominating such a person who did exactly the same thing that they criticized governor romney for. >> being hypocritical in washington, that's certainly not very unique, i don't think, senator, right? i guess it's politics, the political season. i understand fully what you're saying, but you don't really have anything, right? no one is saying he even was a tax evader, just he did some of the same things that raised eyebrows during the election. >> unlike four years ago, we had several nominees from this administration that didn't pay their taxes. some paid their taxes and others withdrew their name. there's no charges against lew for that reason. but i think we do ha
we're going to try to hold an obama nominee to a standard that president obama set. you laid it out correctly, that president obama, in the campaign, made a very very big deal out of the unethical immoral business of investing in the cayman islands. so you would expect -- you wouldn't expect him then to appoint somebody that did exactly the same thing that ends up making the president look hypocritical by nominating such a person who did exactly the same thing that they criticized governor...
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president obama had the courage to back him. and it turned out to be successful. in comparison, if i may say so, with what the europeans have done with their banks, where nobody knows what the numbers are, they apply a stress test that was meaningless and here we are some number of years later, they were still, and rightly so, enormous questions about many of the european banks. i think tim has done an excellent job. >> do you push for enough regulation? people look at compensation on wall street and say it's still too much. >> well i don't think that compensation was the purview of tim. you could argue about compensation one way or another and argue what role it played. that's an issue that the policy community is going to have to deal with going forward. but, it wasn't central to what he had to do. >> do you think compensation played a role? obviously the other critique on you has been that you were paid a huge amount of money, $100 million plus. no one's ever asked me and i was wondering if i could, did you get to keep all that money? a lot of it was in stock.
president obama had the courage to back him. and it turned out to be successful. in comparison, if i may say so, with what the europeans have done with their banks, where nobody knows what the numbers are, they apply a stress test that was meaningless and here we are some number of years later, they were still, and rightly so, enormous questions about many of the european banks. i think tim has done an excellent job. >> do you push for enough regulation? people look at compensation on...
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austin didn't mention the obama-care tax or payroll tax or any of that. those are all headwinds, too. >> listen, i think the impasse in washington is just crazy right now. i am absolutely for not having the sequestration. it's just too blunt of an object. >> but the two sides have not been able to -- >> zero. >> no common room -- common ground. >> if you could cut 85 you wanted to cut? >> in a nanosecond. >> do you have 85 you want to cut? >> do i know it off the top of my head. i think you need to still hit the revenue side. you need revenues and spending to be that fly% differential, you have to get there. you need revenues up by 18%. >> do you get that growing or additional taxes? >> i don't want to use the word taxes and i'm not trying to -- i don't think we're talking about tax rates here. there are certainly revenue loopholes we could be closing. >> we're supposed to close those to lower marginal rates. >> but we didn't. >> simpson-bowles we were lowering marginal rates and closing loopholes. now, we raise annual rates and you close loopholes. >> it
austin didn't mention the obama-care tax or payroll tax or any of that. those are all headwinds, too. >> listen, i think the impasse in washington is just crazy right now. i am absolutely for not having the sequestration. it's just too blunt of an object. >> but the two sides have not been able to -- >> zero. >> no common room -- common ground. >> if you could cut 85 you wanted to cut? >> in a nanosecond. >> do you have 85 you want to cut? >> do i...
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. >> david, obama care is coming. how is that going to affect your company? >> we see obama care as driving change in the marketplace and change is good because maybe to your core question, the status quo is not acceptable. we need to take costs out of the system and increase quality. for us, focus more on services. the change in the marketplace is a positive. one of the biggest changes we see happening in the united states is the opportunity to partner with physicians, to collaborate with physicians, to drive increases in health quality. today we have over 50 collaboratives already up and running in the united states where physicians are more paid based on the quality of outcomes haves the quality of services. as a result, people are getting better quality of outcomes, better services and costs are coming out of the system. >> david, give us a -- your outlook for the year ahead and a little bit beyond that. to what extent, when washington is -- it's in the middle right now of the process of trying to find cost savings. do you expect some of those cost saving
. >> david, obama care is coming. how is that going to affect your company? >> we see obama care as driving change in the marketplace and change is good because maybe to your core question, the status quo is not acceptable. we need to take costs out of the system and increase quality. for us, focus more on services. the change in the marketplace is a positive. one of the biggest changes we see happening in the united states is the opportunity to partner with physicians, to...
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president obama once again says he's going to seek to get new revenue to help bring down the deficit and specifically, he's now calling out carried interest tax breaks again. we'll see where that goes. plus, the story that everyone is talking about this morning, the ravens holding on to beat the 49ers in the super bowl after the lights went out for 45 minutes at the superdome. we're going to try to keep the lights on. "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ if you like it then you should have put a ring on it ♪ ♪ if you like it then you should have put a ring on it ♪ >> good morning, everybody. i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin. joe kernen is on vacation today so we're joined by steve liesman. we're happy to have him here. our top story this morning, the market. we have assembled a trio of wall street's most respected voices to join us for the next hour. we have a lot to talk about this morning. plus, there is that issue of the lights going out at the super dole last night. officials say an abnormality in the power system triggered an automatic shutdown forcing backup sy
president obama once again says he's going to seek to get new revenue to help bring down the deficit and specifically, he's now calling out carried interest tax breaks again. we'll see where that goes. plus, the story that everyone is talking about this morning, the ravens holding on to beat the 49ers in the super bowl after the lights went out for 45 minutes at the superdome. we're going to try to keep the lights on. "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ if you like it then you should...
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says, if we follow president obama's plan, the u.s. in 25 years will be in worse shape than greece is today. >> by the way, stan druckenmiller, he is going to become more publicly vocal. >> is he? >> yes, he is. because he feels strongly that this is just a rape of unborn children. it's -- it's generational theft on an enormous magnitude. i frequently, if i have to give a talk, i ask people, particularly if they're older like i am, i say to them if you had one meal left, and you had your grandchild with you, would you eat it or would you give it to your grandchild? they all say, i'll give it to my grandchild. guess what? they're eating their grandchildren's breakfast, lunch and dinner right now, and they haven't been born yet. this is going to happen. >> right. >> these are -- >> i think these are absolutely great points. i mean, our prior perspective on this has been the periods in when you get big bull markets on stocks, when p/e multiples go to 20, the '50s '80s and nineties, those occurred with stable monetary policy, government sp
says, if we follow president obama's plan, the u.s. in 25 years will be in worse shape than greece is today. >> by the way, stan druckenmiller, he is going to become more publicly vocal. >> is he? >> yes, he is. because he feels strongly that this is just a rape of unborn children. it's -- it's generational theft on an enormous magnitude. i frequently, if i have to give a talk, i ask people, particularly if they're older like i am, i say to them if you had one meal left, and...
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president obama, holding a white house open data day hack-a-thon. today. joe had a different view of what a hack-a-thon was in the white house. but we'll bring -- >> bringing back gibbs and axelrod, and -- >> colleagues of yours. >> colleagues of yours. okay. we're going to continue on. the administration is inviting developers and tech experts to come share some ideas, hack-a-thons are common in the tech industry with the goal to figuring out creative solutions to problems you may remember facebook engineers celebrated their ipo by having a hack-a-thon. don't worry, jim. >> you got to love the name hack-a-thon, don't you? >> the fed minutes spooked investors on thursday. and our next guest took to twitter to offer his thoughts. joining us right now is bill gross. he is the co-cio founder and managing director at pimco and bill it's great to see you this morning thanks for getting up early with us. >> thank you, becky. i'm wide awake. >> we have been talking about your tweet all morning long. talked a little bit earlier just for anybody who didn't see it.
president obama, holding a white house open data day hack-a-thon. today. joe had a different view of what a hack-a-thon was in the white house. but we'll bring -- >> bringing back gibbs and axelrod, and -- >> colleagues of yours. >> colleagues of yours. okay. we're going to continue on. the administration is inviting developers and tech experts to come share some ideas, hack-a-thons are common in the tech industry with the goal to figuring out creative solutions to problems...
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tomorrow we preview president obama's state of the union. i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service®, works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com®, you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small.
tomorrow we preview president obama's state of the union. i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service®, works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com®, you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small.